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Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey Combat Luck, my friend, Combat Luck.

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Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell I read it in Russian, and the title is Poslednyi Dozor. If they translated it literally, it would be Last Watch. It was published a year or so ago -- I think Lukyanenko was inspired to write a fourth due to the success of the films I thought the third was the best. Very sad ending.

Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell It also protects them from being assaulted by said normals. Without giving too much away, in the fourth book a group of mages is assaulted by normals with a rocket launcher.

Re: Sell me on HERO 5th ed. GURPS is called "GURPS." It sounds like some kind of lungfish. Hero, on the other hand, is called Hero. I rest my case.

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey I didn't even factor in Noncombat Movement.

Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell There's nothing in principle keeping the Forces of Evil from threatening the sleeping normals. I don't think they actually do it in the book, though.

Re: What gives the "rightful" king the right? There's always the option of making up the source of your legitimacy. As when Pugachev pretended to be Catherine the Great's (dead) husband.

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Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell Ooh, I like. Thanks Sean! (and everybody else!) I think it's redundant to get PI though, if the caster is a witch?

In the Night Watch series of novels, there is a spell used by the "Light" magicians to get large numbers of pesky normals out of the way. I am not sure how to build it. It is basically a large AE spell that puts everybody to sleep. However, to avoid the problems arising when people driving down the highway and so forth suddenly fall asleep, the spell first compels them to stop what they are doing and get into a safe position -- giving them about 20 seconds or so to do this, so it doesn't always work. How to build this in Hero? Ego Attack, Delayed Effect, linked to Mind Control?

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey Nope nope nope. The Flight and Gliding are in an MP -- the Stooping is outside it. 28d6 Move Through Deathbirds Rule All!

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey Let me check my book.... OK, 40d6 is a bit high. Falcon. -10 STR, so nothing there. 24" Flight, PLUS 48" Flight only for Move Bys. Double that because Flight is doubled when you're going downward. That's 144" of Flight, divided by 5 = a 28d6 Move Through! Technically this will only work if the bird is doing a Move By at prey and misses, ramming into whatever is in its line of motion. I wonder what kind of a crater this will leave in the ground? EDIT: what MP? I don't see that in the writeup.

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey It does!

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Re: Let me consult my library... This is the first I've ever heard of the Research skill. Is this in TUS? Which I do not have in my library.

Hello y'all, I'm building an occultist character (the grandson of Pickman of Pickman's Model fame -- he's part Lovecraftian ghoul; "Distinctive Features: Loping Gait" ). I want him to have a well-stocked library of esoteric tomes at his manor that provide an aid to research. Should I buy the manor as a base, and then buy the library as a laboratory? There's nothing actually special about the manor except the library and the ghoul tunnels underneath it...

Re: You can't move! Ha ha ha! I... think... so...

Re: You can't move! Ha ha ha! Hmmm? Won't it suppress at long as the attacking character pays END and keeps making an attack roll (not hard to do, if the target can't move)? I think maybe you're thinking of Dispel, not Suppress.

Re: Building John Carter of Mars They just haven't met Djon Kartyer of Jupiter yet. Everything is bigger on Jupiter, you know.

I thought about putting this in the Champions section, but Lovecraft was a pulp writer, so here in goes. One thing I like doing with my supers characters is basing them, loosely or closely, as the case may be, on characters from mythology or fiction. Being a Lovecraft fan, I've often wanted to do something with his work, but somehow it has never gelled -- probably because Lovecraft's heroes aren't very swashbuckling and are usually doomed. A partial example is Randolph Carter of the various dreamquests. So, if you were going to write up Mr. Carter -- either as depicted in Lovecraft or suitably altered for an adventuring pulp or supers game -- what would you do with him?

Re: Building John Carter of Mars Hmmm. I just had an idea for a Djon Kartyer of Jupiter. He travels via force of will/dreams/GM fiat to the low-gravity planet of Earth, where his superior muscles and reflexes allow him to engage in swashbuckling adventures, do battle with exotic alien earthbeasts, and save swooning Earth damsels from certain destruction at the hands of villains.

Re: '70s TV Supers You know, this kind of reminds me of a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for the 1970s. I'd like to do it for the 80s, given that I am in that age cohort. The group could have, let's see, Knight Rider, one of the Misfits of Science, the Fall Guy, McGyver, and the kid from Back to the Future. Plus, of course, Manimal. Was the Man from Atlantis 1970s?

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